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LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.
Truly Touching Situation Brought
About by the Outrageous
Dust.
" The wind swept a cloud of dust about
them as they turned the corner of the street,
relates the Cleveland l'lain- Dealer.
."Did you pet any dut in your eyes, dar
ling?" he at-ked fondly, holding her closely
to him, a4 though to keep the too eager wind
away.;;
"Yes," she murmured, searching for the
handkerchief. '
"Which eye, dearest?"
"The rigiit one, love. Did you get any
thing in youre'r" the a.-ked aniiously, ateitg
his handkerchief appear. -
"Yes, darling." -:
"Which ffc, dearest?" '
"The right one, love."
"llow sweet!" she exclaimed. with a fad
light glowing in her well eye. "Do you Eup
pose, dearest heart, that it could have b"en
part of the same piece of dust that got into
our eye?, darling?"
"I hone it was," he said, beaming with one
eye ana wiping the other. - -
"Wouldn t it be sweet, dear?"
"Wouldn't it. love?"
And the wind howled around the corner
s though it was in pain and from the bouse
three doors below a dentist's sign fell oil
into the street.
SUSPENDERS AND SUSPENSE
What Uncle Sam Needs the Former
For as Stated by a Halting
Speaker.
A certain congressman from a mountain
district, 6ays the Isew York Sun, is trou
bled with a weak, pqueaky little voice,
which sometimes fails in the midst of
what might otherwise be an eloquent per
oration. Recently in addressing the house on a
matter connected with tariff, he ex
claimed: "Why, tariffs are like a pair of suspen
ders, sometimes tight and sometimes loose;
but Uncle fcam needs them just the same
to keep up his
Here the congressman's voice struck a
high treble note, flared and stopped.
fhe house held its breath while he
cleared his throat. The suspense, which
seemed to last for fully a minute, was
more painful. to the auditors than to the
orator, for everyone was wondering
whether he would say "trousers" cr
"pants," and some were even hoping that
be might say "pantaloons." Even "over
alls' 'would be better than "pants," for
"pants" is most unparliamentary.
But all fears were without foundation.
He cleared his throat with the greatest
care, and in a death-like stillness resumed
his oration where he had dropped it: "to
keep up his running expenses "
The words which followed were lost
forever in a gale of laughter.
WISE BEYOND HER YEARS.
Senators Culloni and Cannon Baffiec
by a Bright Little
Girl.
At the republican state convention in
Springfield, 111., Senator Cullom and Speaker
Lannon tried to get. a popular ruling as to
which is the handsomer man, says the Sew
York Herald.
"If I had a face like yours, Joe," sajd the
enator, "I'd wear a veil or build a "fence
around it." -
"And if I looked like you, Shelby," replied
"Uncle" Jo, "I'd walk backward all the
time. Your rear elevation isn't so bad, but
the front facade is a bad blotch."
"I'll tell you, Joe, we'll leave it to thi
lit tig girl. She doesn't want any politick
job arid 1 guess she'll be honest," suggested
Senator Culiom.
.The little girl's mother was with h r.
"Which do you think is the best lookiig,
Dorothy?" asked the proud mother.
The child looked at both out of big, frank,
eyes and said:
"I don't like to say. mamma, which I like
best. I might 'fend Mr. Cannon."
No Mister.
Elihu Boot, who has returned to the
practice of law in New York city, has en
gaged a new office boy. Said Mr. Root:
"Who carried off my paper basket?" "It
was Mr. Reilly," said the boy. ""Who is
Mr. Reilly?" asked Mr. Kept. "The iani
tor, sir." An hour later Mr. Root asked:
"Jimmie, who opened the window?" "Mr.
Lantz, sir." "And who is Mr. Lantz?"
"The window cleaner, sir." ' Mr. Root
wheeled about and looked at the boy.
"Se,e here, James," he said, "we call men
by their first names here. Ve don't 'mis
ter' them in this office. Do you under;
etand?" "Yes, sir." In ten minutes the
door opened and a small, shrill voice naid:
"There's a man here as wants to see you,
Elihu." Nashville Banner.
Enriching the Language.
Mrs. McCall Y'ou haven't got that pom
pous butler any more.
Mrs. Nuritch No, we discharged him.
He didn't er buttle to suit us. Milwau
kee Sentinel.
If it were not for the parodies many
b great poem would go unread. Chicago
Tribune.
A BACK LICK
Settled the Case with Her.
Many great discoveries have been
made by accident and things betterthan
gold mines have been found in this way,
for example when even the accidental
discovery that coffee is the real cause of
one's sickness proves of most tremen
dous value because it locates the cause
and the person has then a chance to get
well.
"For over 25 years," says a Missouri
woman, "I suffered untold agonies inmy
stomach and even the best physicians
disagreed as to the cause without giving
me any permanent help, different ones
eaylng it was gastritis, indigestion, neu
ralgia, etc., so I dragged along from
year to year, always half sick, until
finally I gave up all hopes of ever being
well again.
"When taking dinner with a friend
one day she said she had a new drink
which turned out to be Postum and 1
liked it so well I told her I thought I
would stop coffee for awhile and use it,
which I did.
"So for three months we had Postum
In place of coffee without ever having
one of my old spells but was always
healthy and vigorous instead.
"Husband kept saying he was con
vinced it was coffee that caused those
spells, but even then I wouldn't believe
it until one day we got out of Postum
and as we lived two miles from town
I thought to use the coffee we had in the
heuse.
"The result of a week's use of coffee
again was that I had another terrible
spell of agony and distress proving that
it was the coffee and nothing else. That
settled it and I said good bye to Coffee
forever and since then Postum alone has
been our hot mealtime drink.
"My friends all say I am looking
worlds better and my complexion is
much improved. All the other members
of our family have been benefited, loo,
by Postum in place of the old drink, cof
fee." Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
Ten days' trial of Postum in place of
coffee or tea is the wise thing for every
coffee drinker. Such a trial tells the ex
act truth often where coffee Is not sus
pected. Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tle book. "The Road to "Wellvnie."
THE FULL TEXT
OF THE PLATFIIsl
The Democratic Platform as Fin
ished and. Adopted. at the SU -.
Louis Convention. . -
THE HONEY-PLUNK ELIMINATED; " -A
VICTORY FOR WILLUltl J. BRYAN.
riie Tarty Wanfa .a President
Trained In the AVnjs of the Coli
Mtitutlon, Who Minll Sr-t Hit Face
AKninat Iljkecntlye L'aarpatlon Of
Legislative or .Judicial Function.
"We, th-j democratic party of the United
States, In national convention assembled,
declare its devotion to the essential prin
ciples of the democratic faith which
brings us together in party communion.
"Under them local tfelf-Kovernnient and
national unity and prosjrity were alike
established. Ihey underlaid our Independ
ence, the structure of our free republic
and every democratic extension from
Louisiana to California and Texas to Ore
gon, which preserved faithfully in all the
states thg tie between taxation and. rep
resentation. They yet inspire the masses
of our people, guarding jealously their
rignts ana liberties, and cherishlns their
fraternity, peace and orderly develop
ment. They remind us of our duties and
responsibilltie ? as citizens and - impress
upon us. particularly at this time, the
necessity of reform and the rescue of the
administration of government from the
headstrong, arbitrary and spasmodic
methods which distract business by Un
certainty and pervade the public mind
with dread, dintrust and perturbation.
"The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues of the day
constitutes the first step toward the as
sured peace, safety and progress of our
nation. Freedom of the press, of con
science and -of speech; equality before
the law of all citizens; the right of trial
by jury; freedom of the person defended
by the writ of habeas corpus; liberty of
personal contract untrammeled by sump
tuary laws; the supremacy of the civil
ovtr military authority; a well-disciplined
militia; th separation of church and
state; economy in expenditures; low
taxes, that labor may be lightly bur
dened: the prompt and sacred fulfillment
of public and private obligations; fidelity
to treaties; peace and friendship with all
nations; entangling alliances with -none;
absolute acquiescence in the will of the
majority, the vital principle of republics
these are doctrines which democracy has
established as proverbs of the nation,
and they should be constantly invoked,
preached, resorted to and enforced.
( out rolingr Eipcniei,
"1. Large reductions can readily be
made in the annual expenditures of the
government without impairing the efll
2iency of any branch of the public service,
and we shall insist, upon the Btrictest
economy and frugality compatible with
vigorous and efficient civil, military and
naval administration as a right of the
people, too clear to be denied or with
he'.d.
"2. The enforcement of honesty in' the
fiublic service, and to that end a thorough
egislatlvc investigation of those execu
tive departments of the government al
ready known to teem with corruption as
well as other departments suspected Of
harboring corruption, and the punishment
of ascertained corruptionists without fear
or favor or regard to persons. The per
sistent and deliberate refusal of both the
senate and house of representatives to
permit such investigation to be made by
either branch of congress demonstrates
that only by a change in the executive
and in the house of representatives can
complete exposure, punishment and cor
rection be obtained.
"In broader furtherance of that end the
federal government should not permit it
self to be robbed by entering into con
tracts with convicted trusts or unlawful
combinations in restraint of Interstate
trade, existing in violation of law. We
believe that one of the best 'methods of
procuring economy and honesty in the
public service is to have public ofnciahi,
from the occupant of the White House
down to the lowest of them, return, us
nearly as may be, to Jeffersonlan sim
plicity of living.
Presidential Itevouiniendntioni.
"3. We favor the nomination and elec
tion of a president trained in the ways of
the constitution, who shall set his fac;
sternly against executive Usurpation of
legislative and judicial functions, whether
that usurpation be ruled under the guise
of executive construction of existing
laws, or whether it take refuge in the
tyrant's pleas of necessity of superior
wisdom.
-4. The democratic party has been,
and will continue to be. the consistent
opponent of that class of tariff legislation
bv which certain interests have been per
mitted, through congressional favor, to
draw a heavy tribute from the American
people. This monstrous perversion of
those equal opportunities, which our po
litical institutions were established to se
cure, has caused what may once have
been infant industries to become the
greatest combinations of capital that the
world has ever known. These publicly
favored enterprises have, through trust
methods, been converted into monopolies,
thus bringing to an end domestic com
petition, which was the only check upon
the extravagant prolits made possible by
the protective system. These industrial
combinations, by the financial assistance
they can give, now control the policy of
the republican party.
"We lavor a wise, conservative and
businesslike revision and a gradual re
duction of the tariff by the friends of the
masses and for the common weal, and
not by the friends of its abuses, its ex
tortions and its discriminations, keeping
in view the ultimate end of 'equality of
burdens rind equality of opportunities,'
and the constitutional purpose of raising
a revenue by taxation, to-wit, the sup
port of the federal government. In all its
integrity and virility, but In simplicity;
and keeping also In view, as men of com
mon sense should, existing conditions,
howevftr wrongfully, mistakenly or un
justly brought about, and the danger to
the cause of tariff reform itself of abrupt
anil revolutionary reversal of policy.
"We should bear in mind, in short, these
two thins- : (1) The general principle that
the -sole derivation of the power of tax
ation Is the support Of the federal gov
ernemnt. economically, effectively and
constitutionally administered; and , (2),
the equal truth that in the assertion of
any general principle and in reaching
anv ultimate end, however ' sacred and
logically unavoidable, due regard, but
oftiy clue regard, must and should be paid
to actual existing conditions.
"We favor the reduction of tariff tax
ation up"-n trust-produced articles to the
point where foreign competition may en
ter the American market whenever trusts
and combines, seeking monopoly, raise
their prices to the American consumer
abovp a reasonable and just profit, by
such reduction depriving trusts and mo
nopolies of the power to extort from the
American people, under shelter of Ajf.er
xan law, prices higher than those charged
foreigners for Identical articles.
The Isthmian Canal.
"Our party, having long .and .earnestly
advocated the construction of Interoceanic
canal for the purpose of national defense
and commerce between . the states and
with foreign natiorrs. we favor the early
completion of the isthmian canal.
"But while making this declaration and
accepting the results as an accomplished
and irreversible fact, we can not too
forcibly express our disapproval of the
methods -by which, in disregard of the
usages and obligations of international
law and treaty obligations, the canal
route has been acquired, or too solemnly
record our hope that this precedent of
dctiitnt diplomacy may never be used
Against us to our humiliation and Injury.
Trusts and I'nlanfal Combinations.
"We recognize that the gigantic trust?
an4 combinations designed to enable cap
ital to secure more than its just share of
thr joint-product of capital and labor, and
nh.'ch have been fostered and promoted
unT republican rule, are a menace to
beneficial competition and an obstacle to
permanent business prosperity.
"We demand the vigorous and impartial
Pntorcement of the laws already made to
prevent and control such trusts and com
binations, and we favor such further leg
islation in restraint thereof as experience
shows to be necessary.
"Corporations chartered by authority of
the people must forever remain subject
to regulation in the jnterest of the people.
"A private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. We recognize the right of
capital In all legitimate lines of enter
prise to combine for the increase of busi
ness, for enlarging productive capacity,
and for decreasing the cost of production,
but when such combination in its pur
pose, or effect, creates, or tends to cre
ate a monopoly in its productions, to re
strain trade, or to stifle competition: to
increase cost to the consumer or to con
trol the market. It violates the spirit of
our lavs, becomes inimical tD public wel
fare and peace, and should be so regu
lated, controlled or prohibited by law
as to amply protect the public-interests.
"We demand that .the rstr&int of such
Illegal combinations be Intrusted to the
democratic partyr which Is not responsi
ble for .their existence, 'and which lias
ever protested against their continuance.
"We condemn the republican system of
legislation under which trust monopolies
are enabled - to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from our
own people than they sell them for
abroad.
"We demand an enlargement of the
powers of the interstate commerce com
mission, to the end that the traveling
Eublic and shippers of this country may
ave prompt and adequate relief for the
abuses they are now subjected to in the
matter of transportation.
Monroe.. Doctrine.
"We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
. "We favor a liberal trade treaty wltk
Canada. . . ,
Arntjr and.Yft 4 CJ--
""We favor, the .reduction, of the ' army
and of army expenditures to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safeand
sufficient. We favor the maintenance and
liberal annual increase of the navy as our
best defense In our isolated continental
condition against a foreign foe, and- a
source of no possible danger to our liber
ties as a people.
Capital and Labor.
"We favor the enactment and adminis
tration of laws, giving labor and capital
impartially - their just rights. Capital and
labor ought not to be enemies. Each is
necessary to the other. Kach has its
rights, but the rights of labor are cer
tainly no. less 'vested.' no less -'sacred'
and no less 'inalienable than the rights
of capital.
American Citizenship.
"We pledge ourselves to Insist upon th
Just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad, and to use all proper
measures to secure for them, whether
nntive-born or naturalised, and vrtthout
distinction of race or -creed, the actual
protection of laws and the enjoyment of
all rights and privileges open to them
under the covenants of our treaties of
friendship and commerce, and If, under
existing treaties, the right of travel and
sojourn Is denied to American citizens or
recognition 1;; withheld from American
passports by any countries on the ground
of race or creed, we favor the beginning
of negotiations with, the governments of
such countries to secure, by new treaties,
the removal of these unjust discrimina
tions. Pension. -'
"The democracy would secure to .he
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, but by legis
lation which a grateful people stand
ready to enact.
"Our, soldiers and sailors" who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred Interest In their Just
administration. They must therefore
share with us the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over the scarred heroes of many battles;
or aggrandized by "executive appropria
tions out of the treasuries of a prostrate
people, in violation of .the act of con
gress which fixes the compensation and
ollowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
"We denounce the ship" subsidy bill re
cently passed by the United States sen
ate as an iniquitous appropriation of
public funds for private purposes and a
wasteful, illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the obstructions
raised by republican legislation to the
growtlt and development Of American
commerce on the sea.
"We favor the upbuilding of a mer
chant marine without new or additional
burdens Upon the people and without
bounties, from the public treasury. '
Civil Service.
"The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re
form, and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement.-
"We denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroach
ments upon the spirit and operation of
civil service rules, whereby it has arbi
trarily dispensed with examinations for
office In the interest of favorites and
employed all manner of devices to over
reach and set aside the principles upon
Which the civil service was established.
Condemnation of l'ol Kinny.
"We dsmand the extermination of po
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa
tion of church and state In political af
fairs. We - congratulate our western citizens
Upon the passage of the measure known
a3 the NewlandB irrigation act. for the
Irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands of the west a measure framed by
a democrat, passed in the senate by a
non-partiRan vote and passed in the house
again. t the opposition of almost all the
republican leaders by a vote the major
ity of which was democratic. We call at
tention to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive as It is. work
ing automatically throughout all time
without further action of congress, until
the reclamation of all th lands In the
arid west capable of reclamation is ac
complished, i f serving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rlgid
Iv guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence of the policy of domestic devel
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed in power.
Imperialism.
"We favor the preservation, so far as
wo can, of an open door for the world's
commerce in the orient without unneces
sary entanglement in the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary,
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute gov
ernment anywhere within, our Jurisdic
tion. We oppose, as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an Indefinite,
irresponsible, discretionary and vague
absolutism and a policy of colonial ex
ploitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked or excrcls-id: we believe, with
Thomas Jefferson . and John Adams, that
no government has a right to make one
set of laws for thv.se 'at home' and an
other and a different set of laws, abso
lute in their char? crm for those 'in the
colonies.' All men under the American
tlag are entitled to the protection of the
Institutions whose emblem the flag' Is: If
they are inherently unfit for those insti
tions, then they are inherently unlit to bo
members of the American body politic.
Wherever there may exist a people In
capable of being governed under Amer
ican laws, in consonance with the Amer
ican constitution, the territory of that
people ought not to be part of the Amer
ican domain.
"Wo insist that we ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for
the Cubans. And It Is our intent, as soon
as it can be done wisely and safely for
the B'iiipinos themselves, and after amica
ble arrangements with them concerning
naval stations, coaling stations and trade
relations, and upon suitable guarantees
of protection to all national and interna
tional interests, to settle the people upon
their feet, free and independent, to work
out their own destiny. - .. -
"The endeavor of the secretary of war.
bv pledging the government's indorse
ment for 'promoters' In the Philippine
islands, to make the United States a part
ner in speculative exploitation of the
archipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition of democratic
senators in the last session, will, if suc
cessful, lead to a permanent entangle
ment. 'from which It will be difficult to
escape.
Statehood for Territories.
"We favor statehood for Oklahoma and
the Indian territory, statehood for Ari
zona, statehood for New Mexico and a
territorial government for Porto Rico
Election of Senators ly the People.
.."We favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people."
HE HAD' ir FOR BREAKFAST
President Roosevelt Got the Neiv
of Judse Parker's Nomination
:Vhile Bating Breakfast.
Oyster Bay, L I., July 10. News of
the nomination by the St. Lovrs con
vention of Judge Alton B. Parker for
the" presidency was communicated to
President Roosevelt at breakfast time
by Secretary Loeb. The information
was given the president by telephone
from the executive offices in the village
to Sagamore Hill, but he m.'.de no com
ment on either the nomination of Judge
Parker or any other action of the con
vention. What he may have to say
concerning the democratic platfdrm
and candidates probably will be. said
in his letter of acceptance of his own
nomination by the republican party.
The president passed the day in his
library and about Sagamore Hill with
members of his family. No official vis
itors were received.
KilliiiET in Alabama. -
Near River Ridge, Ala., Joh j Mi-Duffle-
was killed by Edward 'Ensli
DIGGING OUT DOLLARS.
Famous "Writer Received " First Sub
stantial Recognition from
"The Black Cat."
-Boston, July, 1904. There is an old
adage that no door shuts without an
other opening. With the necessaries
of living constantly mounting higher,
old sources , of ' income disappearing
and old lines of effort closing up, it is
jncouraglng to find that the ceaseless
change and progress ' of the. times is
apening new fields of endeavor to the
intelligent and- ambitious. "The Bos
ton Daily Globe gives a notable exam
ple in the case of the famous Jack
.ondon, the brilliant war correspend
nt, now at the front,' who secured his
drst substantial recognition as a writer
-ight here in this city, 'Then he was
.ust about to give up in despair. ;
"frothing," he says, "remained but
o get out and shovel coal. I had done
.t before, and earned more money at it.
' resalved to do it again, and I cer
;ainly should have done it, had it not
een for The Black Cat.
"Yes, The Black Cat, The postman
rought me an offer front it for a
4,000-word ..story which was' more
engthy than "strengthy, if I - would
jrant permission to cut it down half,
irant permission? I told them they
jould cut it down two halves if they'd
nly Eend the money along, which thej
lid, by return mail. I forgot my coal
shoveling resolution, and continued to
yhang away at the typewriter. As
'or five dollars offered at some indefinite
Ime by a big magazine, for a story of
iimllar length, I finally received it,
after publication and. a great deal of
embarrassment and trouble."
Nor is Jack.London the only writer
who has been lifted from obscurity to
prominence by . the . lucky Black Cat,
which, as the New York . Press has
truly said, has done more for short
tory writers and short-story readers
than any other publication. Newton
Newkirk, the popular writer, who hails
from an obscure Ohio town, achieved
success through The Black Cat; so did
Stanley Edwards Johnson, the New
England author. Prank Lillie Pollock,
of North Carolina, and many others.
"Each of its famous prize competi
tions has brought new writers to the
front. In its most recent, the $2,100
prize was won by a young Texan who
had never before written a story, and
he second. $1,300, went to a lawyer's
vife in an obscure Missouri town.
It has just inaugurated another con
test in which $10,600 will be paid to
writers in sums of from $100 to $1,500.
This will, no doubt, add many new
names to the list of those who have
"arrived" through its recognition.
The conditions are announced in the
current issue of The Black Cat, and
will also be mailed free to any one by
the Shortstory Publishing company,
Boston, Mass. Even those who cannot
write a winning story themselves may
earn ten dollars by giving a timely
tip to some friend who can.
But all should bear in mind that it
will be entirely useless for any one to
send a story to The Black Cat contest
after October 1, or without first read
ing and complying with all the pub
lished conditions. Here is a chance for
the reader to dig dollars out of hi3
brain, for what life does not contain
at least one tale Worth telling?
A WORTHY BENEVOLENCE.
The Home for Orphaned Children at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Started
21 Years Ago
Twenty-one years ago Rev. J. G.
Lcmen, pastor of a large church at
Council Bluffs, la., took into his home
.hree orphaned children in need of
mch a refuge. Learning of other
homeless little ones he soon filled . 's
house with them, until his own re
sources were exhausted, and he saw
the necessity for larger quarters, which
he secured. Out of this benevolent
movement has grown a wrell-estab
lished and well-appointed permanent
home for nredy orphaned little ones,
and it is stated about 213 such children
are now being cared for in the 25 cottages
ind other buildings belonging to the
organization founded by Mr. Lemen
The Home is non-sectarian and is in
dorsed and supported by all denomina
tions. Children are frequently adopt
ed by families whose good character
has been vouched for. A valuable lit
tie-paper, the subscription price of
svhich is 25 cents per year, is pub
lished uy the workers. It israNed
"The Word and the Way." Informa
tion regarding the carrying on of the
good work may" be obtained by ad
dressing the Christian Home at Coua
cil Bluffs, la.
A Lasting Cure.
Grinnand Barrett What cured
Cawlboy of his desire to be a trage
dian?.
Irving Henry The open-air treat
ment lie walked home from Fond-du-Lac
with the thermometer at zero.
Puck..-
; To Boot.
Reuben Yew say that yer maw like3
me, Cynthy? Haow 'bout father? Ef
ye wan I got married dew yew think
he'd throw an old boot at me fer luck?
Cynthia Yes, Rube; but more'n like
ly Jiis foot would be in the boot. Judge.
A Big Drop.
"What's that racket down there?
shouted the t.ld gentleman from tb
head of the stairs.
"I think," promptly replied his ud
to-date daughter, "that it was Bob
dropping his voice when he proposed
to me. Detroit ree Press.
The Spice of Variety.
Lady Do you always gamble at mar
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Kit Not on yer life, lady! I some
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de cards Judge.
It was hardly necessary for world's fair
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Club women, in San Francisco are to
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Miss Sarah Louise Gilman, of Hair
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of 52 years, during which time she has
had as pupils some of the leading men
of the state's history.
Though totally blind, Mis3 Delia
Pittsford, of Selma, Ind., has practical
charge of a large Sunday school class
and of the choir of a leading church
in Selma. She also does considerable
literary, work and is a skillful type
writer. The arrangement of the cascade
gardens and numerous other fine land
scape decorations at the world's fair
was the work of Miss Ada A. Suter
meister, a trained landscape architect,
and for some years Mr. Kessler's as
sistant. Mrs. Mary J. Tillinghast has served
continuously as police matron for 13
years in Providence, R. I. She is on
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when she is relieved by the night
matron. During the past year over
1,200 women and girls and over 1,600
boys have come under her charge and
influence.
Three prominent English women
who are devoting themselves to the
science of astronomy are Lady Hug
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Walter Maunder. Lady Huggihs is the.
wife of Sir William Huggins," and it i3
acknowledged "that considerable of his
success in spectroscope has been due
to. her, his assistant.
Monroeville, O.', has a woman bank
president in the person of Mrs. Annie
M. Stenz, who is a financier of ability
and has managed her large private for
tune in a manner that has multiplied
it many times. Mrs. Stenz was the
wife of a former bank presiuent of the
First national bank of Monroeville and
was recently chosen to fill the same of
fice herself. .
The hero in a magazine story is made
to say that he admires the freckles on
the nose of the heroine. It requires lit
tle mental effort to imagine a sequel to
the story, telling how he had to buy
freckle lotions for her. Chicago Trib
J
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which would make greater their grief. On
eoDta (N. Y.) Star. .
Brown's Advantage.
Greene How Brown stutters! An aw
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Gray Oh, I don't know. He can mo
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to say a great deal. Boston Transcript.
The missionary societies will be wise not
to arrange to spend the money Turkey owes
them betore collections are made. Ohio
State Journal.
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Speaking of toads, with incidental ref
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Consequently, the Ueecing tirms are find
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A New Yorker who took legal advice on
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A Chicago man applies for a divorce,
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